SHE POPS a Juicy Fruit to combat the taste of smoke and the sting of old booze settling into her unbrushed teeth. She chews and the tangy juice of spit threaten...
Written by Leah Coppella
Cover and feature photos by Lindsay Duncan
Vancouver, city of glass, shining light on the Pacific surrounded by the fringes of ...
Wavering Line #3
comic, Lis Xu, Jean deMers, Anna Kwan, Wenting Li, Olivia Kim, waveringline.com
Anthologies are great. Having your work alongside your friend...
IT ISN’T UNTIL RALUCA announces her intention to change her name that her mother feels completely justified in her long-simmering worry. Derek is, as always, al...
Gord Hill’s comics appear in every issue of Broken Pencil. Click the image to view it in a larger format.
Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nati...
Have you ever wanted to sit down and read 10,000 fanzines? Soon you can! The University of Iowa is digi- tizing the James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection,...
by Brontez Purnell
I can't decide if I did zines in the 90s because I was cool, or because I was a complete fucking nerd. Either way, one thing I can say is,...
Camgirl
Art zine, Josephine Norman, johzephine.com
Some topics are easily dismissed as controversial and cause folks to speak endlessly about them, even whe...
Occasional Dispatch #2
Comics/newspaper, Occasional Dispatch Press, 8 pgs, facebook.com/occasionaldispatch, Free
Your average newspaper tucks comics in the bac...
In each issue, Broken Pencil asks an artist to curate Folio — a section highlighting creators working in unexpected media and materials. This edition is curated...
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